| Looking Back at Law's Century: The Security Clearance Hearing Contributor(s): Sarat, Austin (Editor), Garth, Bryant (Editor), Kagan, Robert A. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0801439574 ISBN-13: 9780801439575 Publisher: Cornell University Press OUR PRICE: $84.10 Product Type: Hardcover Published: May 2002 Annotation: This book describes a century of tremendous legal change, of inspiring legal developments, and profound failures. The twentieth century took the United States from the Progressive Era's optimism about law and social engineering to current concerns about a hyperlegalistic society, from philosophical idealism to the implementation of democracy, the rule of law, and the idea of human rights throughout the world. At the same time, law maintained its status as the key language of governance in the United States, the most "legal" of all countries, which has succeeded in making its version of the state a point of reference around the globe. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Law | Legal History - History | United States - 20th Century - Political Science | History & Theory - General |
| Dewey: 349.73 |
| LCCN: 2002005493 |
| Physical Information: 1.36" H x 6.4" W x 9.44" (1.75 lbs) 464 pages |
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| Publisher Description: This book describes a century of tremendous legal change, of inspiring legal developments, and profound failures. The twentieth century took the United States from the Progressive Era's optimism about law and social engineering to current concerns about a hyperlegalistic society, from philosophical idealism to the implementation of democracy, the rule of law, and the idea of human rights throughout the world. At the same time, law maintained its status as the key language of governance in the United States, the most legal of all countries, which has succeeded in making its version of the state a point of reference around the globe. |
Contributor Bio(s): Sarat, Austin: - Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College. He has served as President of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities and of the Law and Society Association. He is the author of When the State Kills: Capital Punishment and the American Condition, and from Cornell, editor of Law in the Liberal Arts and coeditor of Looking Back at Law's Century. |